Fleeing Germany after the collapse of the Third Reich, two German citizens become friends when they meet on a trans-Atlantic crossing. Both disembark at Halifax and promise to communicate with each other by whatever means possible.
Hermann Baumbach flies from Halifax to Calgary to establish a branch of his father’s business. Hermann, his sisters and parents had escaped just before the War from Frankfurt to Tel Aviv, Palestine.
His friend, Captain Janos von Heissel, born in Düsseldorf, a staunch Nazi, is being sought for War Crimes by the Nuremberg Court. To escape, he disguises himself and adopts the identity of a Jewish Düsseldorfer, Jaakob Kesselmann, which qualifies him for a permanent visa to Argentina where Nazis and Jews with capital are welcome. The Captain is always on guard to conceal his true identity which haunts him all his life, while a silent nemesis lies in wait for him.
This epic reveals the struggle to survive in a culture of upheaval, which is the central issue of our times: the impact of war and corruption upon the ordinary citizen who must live in a spiritually ruined world.
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